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020			_a9780199684946 _qhbk
041			_aeng
082			_a658.406 _bLEV
100			_aLevinthal, Daniel A.
245			_aEvolutionary processes and organizational adaptation : a Mendelian perspective on strategic management _cDaniel A. Levinthal
260			_aOxford ; New York _bOxford University Press _c2021
300			_a145 pages _b : ill. _c22 cm
520			_aThis perspective also highlights the role of intentionality with respect to the selection and culling of strategic initiatives. The organization operates an “artificial selection” environment, as firms receive profits and losses and, in turn, mediate how these environmental outcomes are projected onto underlying elements and actors within the organization. In this spirit, exploration can be considered not merely as the distance in the underlying behavior from current action, but also as changes in the dimensions of merit by which initiatives are judged. The Mendelian executive is a catalyst and cultivator of promising pathways to unknown futures.
650			_aOrganizational change
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